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Adrienne slid her helmet off, shaking out her hair. It fell like a silken blanket over her bare, sun-kissed shoulders. She raised an eyebrow. “Are you suggesting your motorcycle will turn into a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight?”

“You never know, princess. Depends on whether today was real or only a fairy tale.”

His insides twisted as he hung his helmet on the handlebars. He’d meant his comment lightheartedly, but the truth of his words echoed in his head. If it was real, then he hadn’t yet accomplished his objective, which was to pry information from the Widow DeBlanc using any means necessary. If it was a fairy tale, then— Seth stopped. It wasn’t a fairy tale. There would be no happily-ever-after, not if what Conrad Burke and the others thought about her was true. He didn’t want to believe that she was involved in any of the drug dealing or corruption. But whether he wanted to believe it or not didn’t matter.

He had a job to do.